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Ransom, i. 288; and Prince Masserano, i. 290; letter to Durand on the state of affairs in England, i. 323; his policy with England in 1768, i. 361; his scheme for occupying Corsica, i. 363; on the annexation of Corsica, i. 368; his negotiations with Pascal Paoli, i. 380; on Lord Weymouth and Lord Rochfort, i. 415; and the French Government, i. 483
Cholmondeley, Lord, ii. 118
Cholmondeley, Mr., and Lord Bolingbroke, i. 22
Christianity, Lord Shelburne on, ii. 348
Chudleigh, Miss, i. 397
Church of England, position of, in the first half of the eighteenth century, i. 438
Civil List, the, and the Crown, i. 185; Lord Shelburne's speech on, ii. 3; Duke of Richmond's motion on the, ii. 46; Lord Shelburne's speech on the, ii. 46; Lord Shelburne's motion for a committee on, ii. 47; bill for the reform of the, ii. 104, 105, 108; George III. on the reform of the, ii. 210
Clare, Lord, on the Irish Question, i. 341, 343
Clark, Sir Andrew, on Lord Chatham's complaint, i. 332
Clergy, the, and Laity, Lord Shelburne on, ii. 347; in Ireland, ii. 361; and politics, Lord Shelburne on, ii. ii
Clerk, Sir Philip, bill for excluding contractors from Parliament, ii. 50
Clerke, General, i. 72
Clermont, Comte de, i. 73
Clive, Lord, Lord Shelburne's distrust of, i. 221; and the India Company, i. 293
Closterseven, the Convention of, i. 65
Coal Tax, ii. 47
Coalition Ministry of 1783, ii. 223; Members of the, ii. 262; popular feeling against, ii. 268 Cobham, Lord, i. 42; and William Pitt, i. 56
Coke, Mr. Parker, ii. 227
Colonial Constitutions, James Abercromby's Report on, i. 179
Colonies, government of the Royal, i. 179; management of the affairs of the, i. 174, 178; the Charter, i. 180; smuggling in the, i. 183; taxation of the, i. 181, 186, 192
Commercial Treaty with the American Colonies, ii. 253
Commercial Treaties with France and the United States, ii. 217, 220
Commis, Lord Shelburne's use of the word, ii. 52
Commons, House of, during the reign of George II., i. 39
Compton, Sir Spencer, i. 32, 36
Condorcet's Life of Turgot, ii. 306
Conferences, the Hampton Court and Savoy, i. 438
Congress, General, the American, i. 475
Connecticut, i. 180, 183
Consolato del Mare, ii. 74, 307
Contractors, Sir Philip Clerk's Bill for excluding, from Parliament, ii. 50, 56, 109
Conway, Captain Hugh (afterwards Lord Hugh Seymour), ii. 190
Conway, General, i. 39, 57, 319, 320, 325; Commander-in-Chief, ii. 905 reply to Chas. Fox's speech attacking Lord Shelburne's Ministry, ii. 158, 159
Copyright, trial in the House of Lords of a case of, i. 470
Conyers, John, i. 394
Cork, Hamilton Boyle, afterwards Earl of, i. 15
Corn, the embargo on, in 1766, i. 290
Cornwallis, Lord, surrender of his army at York Town, ii. 82; appointed Governor-General of India, ii. 269
Corsica, i. 362; proposed annexation of, by France, i. 362, 365; the Duc de Choiseul on the annexation of, i. 368; the treaty with France, i. 368, 369; Lord Shelburne's letter to Rochfort on the annexation of, i. 369; the Duke of Grafton's scheme for assisting, i. 375
Country Banks, Lord Shelburne on, ii. 342
Courts of Conscience, Lord Shelburne on, ii. 305
Cowper, the Countess of, i. 222
Craggs, the two, anecdotes of, i. 31
Craggs, old Mr., and Sir Robert Walpole, i. 31
Craggs, young Mr., i. 31
Credit, Lord Shelburne on, ii. 342
Cromwell, Oliver, i. 17
Cromwell, Richard, i. 19
Cromwell's Government, i. 18
Cromwell's Speeches, i. 22
Crown, the, and the Civil List, i. 185; Dunning's motion against the influence of the, ii. 54, 56
Crown Lands, Woods and Forests, abuses of the administration of, ii. 227
Cumberland, Duke of, character of, i. 45; Mr. Fox and, i. 45; his conduct of the war, i. 63, 74; and the Convention of Closterseven, i. 65; and Henry Fox,